Social Welfare Act 2017

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Number 38 of 2017


SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2017


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

1. Short title, construction, collective citation and commencement

PART 2

Amendments to Social Welfare Acts

2. Definitions

3. Amendment of definition of share-based remuneration

4. Maternity benefit - new rate

5. Adoptive benefit - new rate

6. Paternity benefit - new rate

7. Alteration in rates of jobseeker’s benefit relating to certain reckonable weekly earnings

8. Renaming of family income supplement

9. Report on working family payment

10. Working family payment - new weekly rates in certain circumstances

11. Back to work family dividend - amendment

12. Social insurance benefits - new rates

13. One-parent family payment - weekly earnings disregard

14. Social assistance payments - new rates

15. Maternity benefit - premature birth

PART 3

Amendments to other Acts

16. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 1994

17. Amendment of section 4 of National Training Fund Act 2000

Miscellaneous Reports

18. Report on pension bands and rates

19. Report on rent-a-room relief

SCHEDULE 1

Renaming of Family Income Supplement

SCHEDULE 2

Social Insurance Benefits (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 4 of Schedule 2

SCHEDULE 3

Social Assistance Payments (New Rates) - Substitution of Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 4


Acts Referred to

Maternity Protection Act 1994 (No. 34)

National Training Fund Act 2000 (No. 41)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010 (No. 28)

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (No. 12)

Social Welfare Act 2016 (No. 15)

Social Welfare Acts

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2011 (No. 9)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 (No. 16)

Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2015 (No. 47)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

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Number 38 of 2017


SOCIAL WELFARE ACT 2017


An Act to amend and extend the Social Welfare Acts; the Maternity Protection Act 1994 ; the National Training Fund Act 2000 ; and to provide for related matters.

[23rd December, 2017]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: